Chapter 675: Support Guiyunfang and fight back against the monsters (Subscribe)
Five days later, in the meeting hall of "Jinshanfang".
Song Qingming, who was sitting alone at the head, carefully looked at the battle report in his hand.
Nearly forty foundation-building cultivators stood below, most of whom were from "Jinshanfang" who had participated in the battle with the monsters a few days ago.
When Song Qingming turned to the last page about the losses of the "Jinshanfang" cultivators in this battle, his originally happy face suddenly became a little solemn.
Although "Jinshanfang" won a great victory in this battle and defeated and severely damaged the monster army, it also suffered a lot of losses.
Four foundation-building cultivators died on the spot, and nearly three hundred Qi-refining cultivators were also lost. Many cultivators were injured in this battle and returned to the rear to recuperate.
Huang Siyuan also injured her lungs in the previous battle with "Nine-patterned Dragon" alone, and is still in seclusion to heal her injuries.
Although the Song family did not lose any foundation-building cultivators in this battle, they also lost more than 30 people. Among them, Song Xuanqing, a family elder who was at the second level of foundation-building, was seriously injured in this battle and has been arranged to be sent back to the family's Funiu Mountain for treatment.
Looking at the list of cultivators who had died in the battle, although it was not the first time he saw these, Song Qingming still felt a little uneasy.
Among these people, there were descendants and juniors he had met, and there were also vassals who had visited him. A few days ago, they were still standing in this hall with a smile, but when he looked back, they were all cold names.
However, after experiencing such cruel things many times, although Song Qingming was touched in his heart, he was able to adjust his mentality quickly.
After closing the war merit book in his hand, Song Qingming looked up at the people sitting there and smiled again.
"You all performed well in this battle. When the merits of the law enforcement team are counted, I will report this to the sect and record the merits for you all.
For those who have made outstanding contributions on the battlefield, a merit awarding meeting will be arranged in ten days, and I will personally distribute the rewards to everyone at that time.
In addition, a portion of the spiritual stones for the dead monks of each family can be distributed first. Each family can arrange people to go directly to the treasury to collect them.
You must personally inquire about this matter, and do not withhold the merits of the dead from the vassal family. Otherwise, once it is found out in the future, it will be handled according to the sect rules. Don't be careless."
"Thank you for the reward, ancestor, we will keep it in mind!"
According to the detailed statistics after the war, in this battle, the monks of "Jinshanfang" killed a total of 26 second-level monsters and 1,386 first-level monsters, in addition to the demon king "Nine-Pattern Dragon" killed by Song Qingming and others.
After processing and collecting, the materials from these monsters have now filled up the treasury of "Jinshanfang".
According to the previous rules, although these spoils of war will eventually be transported back to the sect, Song Qingming has the right to take out some monster materials first to provide relief to the dead and reward those who work hard on the battlefield.
In this battle of "Jinshanfang", Song Qingming was very satisfied with the performance of these cultivators under his command.
When he and Huang Siyuan failed to kill the "Nine-Pattern Dragon" to determine the outcome of the battlefield, facing the fierce army of monsters, few people dared to retreat on the battlefield, and they all showed their blood to defend their land and home.
Now that it has finally taken so much effort to defeat the monster army, Song Qingming naturally does not want these cultivators who are looking forward to the reward to wait too long, and directly announced the holding of the Good Deeds Conference.
Hearing that the reward conference is about to be held, the faces of the people present are also excited.
Compared to a hundred years ago, when they fought with the "White Lion Demon King" for more than half a year and fought dozens of battles before repelling the demon beast army, this time the monks of "Jinshanfang" repelled the demon beast army in less than a month. They did not expect to celebrate and receive rewards at the beginning.
Although the demon beast army led by "Nine-Pattern Dragon" was defeated in one battle, it does not mean that the demon beast turmoil that swept across the entire northern Wei State has ended now.
However, it is definitely a very exciting thing for all the monks guarding "Jinshanfang" to have such a good beginning.
As Song Qingming expected, after killing the leading demon king "Nine-Pattern Dragon", for a period of time, there were only some scattered and insignificant demon beasts in the north that went south to harass, and there were no more large-scale demon beast armies.
Ten days later, "Jinshanfang" also held a reward meeting as scheduled.
This time, not only Song Qingming personally presided over the conference, but Huang Siyuan, who was in seclusion to heal his wounds, also came out of seclusion to the conference site to encourage and reward the cultivators who had made contributions on the battlefield.
In this battle with the army of monsters, the best performers were naturally the cultivators with the highest cultivation in the late stage of foundation building.
Among them, Song Yuanli, Huang Mengde and other five people all had the record of killing a level 2 monster or above alone, and each received a reward of a level 2 upper-grade magic weapon.
Next, there were more than a dozen foundation-building cultivators headed by Song Yuanhao who performed well on the battlefield and cooperated to kill level 2 monsters. Each of them was rewarded with a level 2 middle-grade magic weapon.
Although their military exploits were not as dazzling as those of the previous few people, their heroic performance on the battlefield was not much worse than theirs.
In addition to these foundation-building cultivators, there were dozens of Qi-refining cultivators who had outstanding military exploits on the battlefield, and they were also rewarded with magic weapons or other spiritual objects such as talismans.
These spiritual objects used for rewards were all obtained by Song Qingming from the surrounding foundation-building families or the market with the captured monster materials. Many of them came from the Song family and the "Chiyanfang" controlled by them.
For this reason, the Song family also exchanged a lot of monster materials from the "Jinshanfang" treasury and transported them back to Funiu Mountain.
After the reward meeting, Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan had just returned to the cave house when a ray of spiritual light suddenly flew from the sky and landed in a small courtyard in the middle of the market.
After a while, Song Yuanli, who was holding a sound transmission note from Guyang Mountain, hurried to the outside of Song Qingming's cave house and sent a sound transmission note inside.
"Seventh uncle, there is a message from the sect!"
Song Qingming, who was drinking tea and chatting with Huang Siyuan, hurriedly called him into his cave house after receiving the sound transmission note from Song Yuanli and took the sound transmission note from him.
After the victory of the monster army in the battle of "Jinshanfang", seeing that the monster army here did not dare to go south on a large scale, Song Qingming sent a letter to inform the general affairs hall of the sect of the situation here, and asked them about the details of the war in other places of Weiguo.
Although he repelled the monster army, Song Qingming knew very well that this monster turmoil was far from over and it would definitely not be so easy to get through.
In case the war in other places was not going well, they should also be ready to go to support at any time.
Hearing Song Yuanli say that the sect had received news, Song Qingming's expression immediately became a little serious.
After opening the sound transmission note sent by Songmen and taking a closer look, Song Qingming's face gradually became solemn, and his brows also wrinkled slightly, full of worry.
"Husband, what's wrong, is there a problem with Tuoyun Mountain and Tiexian Fort?" Seeing that Song Qingming's face was a little wrong, Huang Siyuan, who was sitting next to him, immediately asked.
After hearing this, Song Qingming put away the sound transmission talisman in his hand, shook his head and replied: "It's not that there are problems in those two places, but the trouble is in Guiyunfang.
According to the sect's message, in addition to the team led by the Demon King Molong himself, there are also eighteen demon kings coming at once near Guiyunfang. Now the sect is in a state of emergency, and even Junior Sister Xu and Senior Brother Chen have rushed to the front battlefield of Guiyunfang for support."
"What? Eighteen demon kings, how could Jinyu Mountain send out so many demon kings at once? Is this new demon king crazy? They came out in full force to attack Guiyunfang. Aren't they afraid that their old nest will be occupied by other demon forces?"
When Huang Siyuan heard from Song Qingming that eighteen demon kings came to "Guiyunfang" at once, an expression of disbelief and shock suddenly appeared on her face.
There are about a dozen demon kings resident near "Jinyu Mountain", plus those demon kings who came south from the northern border during the demon beast turmoil. Generally, when the demon beast turmoil occurs, there are only more than twenty demon kings in the north of Weiguo.
When the Golden Feather Demon King was still around, every time there was a riot of demon beasts, although many demon beasts from the "Golden Feather Mountain" would go south to attack the human territory, they never came out in full force, and at least a group of demon kings would be left to guard the sacred mountains under their command.
If we say that there were eighteen demon kings on the "Guiyunfang" side at the same time, then together with the demon kings responsible for restraining the three places of "Golden Mountain Square", "Tuoyun Mountain" and "Iron Immortal Fort", the total number of demon kings was almost more than twenty.
With so many demon kings going south to besiege "Guiyunfang" at the same time, the demon beast army under the command of "Golden Feather Mountain" could indeed be regarded as coming out in full force.
The Xiaoyao Sect stationed in "Guiyunfang", plus Chen Xuanxin and Xu Ziyan who went to support, had only seven Jindan cultivators at most.
In the case that the Yuanying cultivators of both sides restrained each other and could not intervene, the seven people on the Xiaoyao Sect side, even if they had the mountain protection formation of "Guiyunfang" behind them, would find it difficult to hold out for too long in the face of the full-scale siege of eighteen demon kings.
Therefore, this message came to Song Qingming, in addition to explaining the specific situation of several other places in Weiguo, it also asked for help from him, hoping that Song Qingming would quickly go to "Guiyunfang" to support the sect to protect this market.
"Tuyun Mountain" was restrained by the Yunhe Demon King in the middle stage of the Golden Core. Guangling Zhenren and Zhang Rong could only barely resist the opponent together, and there was no way to withdraw their strength to support "Guiyunfang".
In addition to the "Iron Fairy Fort" guarded by Zhao Menglian and Hu Qingyun, three demon kings also came this time. Although these demon kings could not attack the "Iron Fairy Fort" for a while, Zhao Menglian and his team were also unable to withdraw.
Only in "Jinshanfang", which was somewhat despised by the monsters, Song Qingming unexpectedly killed the "Nine-Pattern Dragon" and quickly repelled the monster army, which gave Xiaoyao Sect a lot of hope and hurriedly sent a message to ask him to go to "Guiyunfang" for support.
After learning that the frontline "Guiyunfang" was in danger, Song Qingming did not dare to delay too much, and returned to Funiu Mountain with Huang Siyuan.
Now that the "Nine-Pattern Dragon" has been killed by Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan, the monsters in the north of "Jinshanfang" are no longer a force to be reckoned with, and there is a level 3 mountain protection formation.
As long as Song Yuanli and his men can be more cautious, even if they encounter one or two ordinary monster kings, the thousands of cultivators inside can defend the formation for half a day and wait for the support of the sect.
After returning to Funiu Mountain, seeing that Song Qingyu was still in seclusion and had not come out, Song Qingming left her a letter, and immediately went to Guyang Mountain with Huang Siyuan, and took the sect's teleportation formation directly to the front line of "Guiyunfang".
After Song Qingming and his wife arrived in the market, the Xiaoyao Sect members who were resisting the attack of the monster army in the market were very excited and relieved to hear the news.
On the second day, the Supreme Elder Li Mufeng gathered all the Jindan elders in "Guiyunfang" in the meeting hall, preparing to organize a counterattack against the monsters and repel the continuous attack of the monster army outside on the market mountain protection formation.
In addition to the leading Molong Monster King, the monster army that came to besiege "Guiyunfang" this time, there were more than 20,000 monsters in total, including more than 500 second-level monsters in the foundation-building period, and as many as 18 Jindan monster kings who could influence the battlefield situation.
In "Guiyunfang", although Xiaoyao Sect has gathered most of the sect's strength here, there are less than 200 foundation-building cultivators in the market, and with Song Qingming and his wife who came to support, there are also only nine Jindan cultivators.
Even if we add those independent cultivators who have settled in "Guiyunfang" for many years to help guard the market, the overall strength of Xiaoyao Sect is only about half of the monster army, and the gap in strength between the two sides is still very obvious.
More than half a month ago, the Black Dragon Demon King led so many monsters to "Guiyunfang" and almost caught Xiaoyao Sect off guard.
Fortunately, the sect's supreme elder Li Mufeng had already stationed in "Guiyunfang" in advance, and the third-level top-grade mountain protection formation in the market was powerful, so he barely blocked the first wave of fierce attacks by monsters.
After discovering that the monster army came out in full force to besiege "Guiyunfang", Li Mufeng hurriedly transferred all the remaining mobile forces left in the sect to the front line of "Guiyunfang", which barely stabilized the current situation.
However, although Xiaoyao Sect defended "Guiyunfang", the monster army was now so powerful that they could only rely on the mountain protection formation for defense and had no ability to repel the monster siege.
For more than half a month, the monster army had been attacking continuously. Although there was no problem with the mountain protection formation of "Guiyunfang", it would not last long if it did not find a way to repel the fierce attack of the monster army.
In the thousands of years of history of Xiaoyao Sect, the last time it encountered such a large-scale monster army heading south was when the "Golden Feather Demon Emperor" led the invading monster army more than a thousand years ago.
In that battle more than a thousand years ago, the reason why Xiaoyao Sect was able to successfully repel such a powerful attack of the "Golden Feather Demon Emperor" was not only because of the support of the monks of Pei State in the south, who had a good relationship with them.
It was mainly because the former Yuanying Grand Elder Daoxuan Zhenren had powerful magical powers and defeated the leading "Golden Feather Demon Emperor" several times in the battle, which forced the monsters to withdraw and sign an alliance with the human race.
Faced with the overwhelming attack of monsters from the north, Xiaoyao Sect, which has been unable to bear the pressure, has also sent letters to neighboring friendly countries for help.
However, now the monsters in the entire northern border are in turmoil, and the surrounding countries also have their own troubles to deal with. It will be difficult for Xiaoyao Sect to wait for reinforcements from other sects in a short time. If they want to defend "Guiyunfang", they still need to rely on their own strength.
In the past half month, Xiaoyao Sect's Grand Elder Li Mufeng has also fought several battles with the "Molong Demon King" led by the monsters. Both sides are mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators, and Li Mufeng has not been able to gain any advantage from the "Molong Demon King".
Now that the Nascent Soul cultivators of both sides are evenly matched, Xiaoyao Sect wants to interrupt the monster army's attack on the "Guiyunfang" mountain protection formation and temporarily resolve this crisis. It can only rely on Song Qingming and other Jindan elders of the sect.
According to the information currently available to Xiaoyao Sect, there are a total of 18 demon kings attacking the mountain protection formation outside "Guiyunfang". They lead a large army of demon beasts and attack the mountain protection formation of "Guiyunfang" from the north, east and west.
There are six demon kings in each direction, and there are powerful late Jindan demon kings in charge.
Because the power of the demon beasts far exceeds that of Xiaoyao Sect, no matter which direction Bai Yuxian and his men attacked from in the previous few times, they failed to defeat the enemy and were forced back by the demon kings supporting from the other two directions, and could only return to the mountain protection formation in Fangshi without success.
This time, with the addition of Song Qingming and two others, Xiaoyao Sect, which has strengthened the power of Jindan cultivators, finally has a chance to break the current crisis.
Although Xiaoyao Sect failed to repel the siege of the demon beast army in the previous few counterattacks, it also explored a lot of useful information.
There are two great Jindan late-stage demon kings in the north and west of "Guiyunfang". The six demon kings in charge of commanding the demon beast army in the east of the market are slightly weaker, with only one great Jindan late-stage demon king among them.
Therefore, the Xiaoyao Sect also chose this side as the direction of the counterattack.
As long as they can catch the enemy by surprise and severely injure or kill one or two demon kings before the other two demon beast armies react, they will surely be able to dampen the enemy's spirit and force the demon beast army to temporarily stop the siege from all sides, thus reducing the pressure on the market's mountain protection formation.
After everyone discussed it, Li Mufeng took the initiative to attack from the north of the market the next day and fought with the "Molong Demon King" again.
While many demon beasts in the north were distracted by the battle between the two Yuanying cultivators, Bai Yuxian led Song Qingming and others to quietly gather on the east side of "Guiyunfang".
The six demon kings who were commanding the army of monsters to attack the mountain protection formation did not notice the movements of the Xiaoyao Sect monks in the market town, and were still taking turns to cast spells to attack the market town formation.
Taking advantage of the gap when the two weaker demon kings attacked the formation, the leader Bai Yuxian gave an order, and the nine Jindan elders of Xiaoyao Sect quickly rushed out of the mountain protection formation and headed straight for the two demon kings who were casting spells.
Seeing so many Jindan cultivators coming straight for them, the two demon kings, who were only in the early Jindan stage, were immediately startled, and hurriedly stopped casting spells and turned around to retreat quickly.
"Demon king, where are you going!"
Seeing that the two demon kings wanted to escape, Bai Yuxian, who had already prepared, roared angrily, and a white light flashed under his feet. After several changes of his body shape, he had already caught up with one of the slower white bull demon kings not far behind.
Bai Yuxian's face was calm, and with a move of the magic power in his hand, he released a silver long whip to tie up one of the hind legs of the "white bull demon king", forcing it to stop in mid-air.
Seeing this, another "green python demon king" not far away immediately turned back to help, wanting to help his companion "white bull demon king" get out of trouble.
However, as a Jindan peak cultivator, Bai Yuxian faced two Jindan early stage demon kings alone, and he had no pressure at all. He suppressed the two demon kings in just a few rounds.
When Song Qingming and others attacked, thousands of cultivators in the market had already cooperated to fight out of the mountain protection formation and began to contain the low-level demon beasts below.
Located above the city wall of the market, many second-level "Flying Cloud Crossbows" and a more powerful "Spiritual Light Cannon" that had been gathered here in advance also began to attack the demon beasts below.
Faced with this sudden and fierce attack, the demon beast army that had just begun to recklessly besiege the market formation was a little unresponsive for a while, but lost nearly two hundred demon beasts in a moment.
"Hmph! Xiaoyao Sect Master, you are too arrogant. I will come to meet you!"
Just when Bai Yuxian had just caught up with the two monsters "White Bull Monster King", four rays of light flew over from the horizon not far away. Among them, the one who had already arrived nearby was the "Golden Tiger Monster King" who led the army of monsters on the east side of the market.
The "Golden Tiger Monster King" came to Jinyu Mountain from the northern border with the "Molong Monster King" not long ago. This monster has followed the "Molong Monster King" for many years and has won his trust.
In addition, the "Golden Tiger Monster King" has reached the peak of the Golden Core, and its fighting strength is not much worse than that of Bai Yuxian, which is why it can lead a large army of monsters alone.
Seeing that the "Golden Tiger Monster King" had already killed in front of her with a sharp claw, Bai Yuxian did not dare to be careless. She was about to turn around to resist, but a sword light had already blocked her in front of her, blocking the attack of the "Golden Tiger Monster King".
"Senior Sister Bai, you just focus on dealing with these two monsters, and let us deal with these monster kings!"
At the same time, among the people of Xiaoyao Sect, Chen Xuanxin and Song Qingming, who were faster in escaping, had also arrived at the battlefield and stopped the "Golden Tiger Monster King" who wanted to help.
Seeing that Song Qingming and the others had stopped the most difficult "Golden Tiger Monster King", Bai Yuxian felt relieved and began to concentrate on dealing with the two monster kings in front of her.
Soon, the people of Xiaoyao Sect and the other four monster kings arrived at the battlefield one after another, and many Jindan cultivators of the human and demon races immediately started a very fierce melee.
For a while, all kinds of spiritual lights and sparks flew in the sky above the battlefield, and many unlucky monsters that did not have time to escape were affected by the battle of these Jindan cultivators and lost their lives. (End of this chapter)